No hind shoes?

[Cannon Shell]

There was a pretty good horse in Florida that used to run barefoot about 15 years ago. Happy Alter may have trained him but not 100% sure

[Riot]

Chuck, you ever run young horses barefoot? I would think it's hard to get them through breaking in Florida with intact hoofs (the sandy soil)?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

Chuck, you ever run young horses barefoot? I would think it's hard to get them through breaking in Florida with intact hoofs (the sandy soil)?

Once at GP when we had the wrong shoes on for a turf race. Pulled them in the holding barn. Ran 2nd at like 40-1. Tried it again next start and he ran bad so they who knows if it has any real impact.

[Round Pen]

I break a 100 or so Yearlings every year here in Florida and I never put hind shoes on any thing. I will put front shoes on most of them when we start breaking. We also Breeze our young Horses all the time with no Hind Shoes.


Cannon is the Horse your thinking About of Happy Alter Jolie's Halo????????

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Round Pen

I break a 100 or so Yearlings every year here in Florida and I never put hind shoes on any thing. I will put front shoes on most of them when we start breaking. We also Breeze our young Horses all the time with no Hind Shoes.


Cannon is the Horse your thinking About of Happy Alter Jolie's Halo????????

No it was a sprinter that wasnt nearly as good as Jolies halo

Maybe Ponche? Who trained him?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Round Pen

I break a 100 or so Yearlings every year here in Florida and I never put hind shoes on any thing. I will put front shoes on most of them when we start breaking. We also Breeze our young Horses all the time with no Hind Shoes.

Good to know. Is your track sandy?

I do recall with the hunters we'd try not to get hinds on the young horses until they started popping little fences. Saved alot of dings and bangs on the front legs, helped keep them clean.

[Cannon Shell]

Old timers like Frank Whitely never put hind shoes on a horse till the day of their first race. Of course he really didnt know what he was doing as he was just hopping horses with cocaine according to Jim Squires.

[joeydb]

OK, so if I had to form a consensus from the comments here, I'd guess that "no hind shoes" is not something I should throw a horse out for, that it is not that uncommon of a practice, and that there are no regulations that require a horse to run with all four shoes on?

Thanks to all who tried to clear this up...

[Echo Farm]

Originally Posted by Riot

Chuck, you ever run young horses barefoot? I would think it's hard to get them through breaking in Florida with intact hoofs (the sandy soil)?

From what I've read, most tracks (syn or "dirt") are between 70 and 85% sand.
But, we get some pretty "sharp" sand from the middle of the state.